Landscape Painting, Including Painting Trees, Clouds, and Sky

A collection of tips to help you with your landscape painting.

Tips on how to paint the sea, including the colors to use and dealing with an ever-moving subject.

A look at the decisions you need to make when planning landscape paintings, before you even put a brush into some paint.

One decision that must be made at composition stage, is where the light is going to come from as this influences the shadows, contrasts, and colors. So what are the choices?

Tips on how to paint a sunset working quickly and decisively.

Make these mistakes, and your trees may ruin your paintings.

Learn how to how to paint a realistic tree with green foliage, such as an oak tree, in this step-by-step painting demo.

The 'secret' to painting believable trees is an understanding of the underlying structure of trees complemented by observation of different species.

This step-by-step tree painting demonstration shows the creation of a painting of a forest done in the style of Klimt, from start to finish.

Artist and art tutor Jerry Fresia expresses his thoughts on painting from photos (don't!), and how first-hand observation is crucial to painting trees and branches successfully.

Transparent water drops are very appealing things to paint and not as hard to paint as you might have thought, as this tutorial shows.

Use this easy technique to learn how to paint realistic ripples of any size in water.

See how to paint a background for a landscape without wasting paint or time.

This landscape painting is one of a series which came out of a trip made to Namaqualand. Follow me through the quiver tree painting step by step...

A quick technique for creating texture in a watercolor painting, perfect for snowflakes!

What makes a group of landscape paintings a series and why would you paint a series of landscapes?

Abstract Painting: A step-by-step demonstration of painting an abstracted landscape titled ‘Heat’, using reds, oranges, and yellow.

A series of photos taken at Andy Goldsworthy's cairn at Penpont, Scotland.

Canadian Artist Robert Genn writes about the cues we can find in nature for our art, in his characteristic erudite way.

Find out where you can obtain free reference photos that you can use in your paintings.

Reference photos for artists: photographs of landscapes to use for inspiration and reference in your paintings and artwork.

Brrrr, get ready to feel the cold with this collection of snowy landscape reference photos!

A five-step demonstration by Charles Harrington of how he painted a landscape with an old building in it. It aims to show how acrylics allow multiple glazes without muddying the underlying layers.

A step-by-step oil painting demonstration on how to use glazing, or thin layers of colour, to paint rocks under water.

A step-by-step demonstration of how to paint translucent (clear) water with reflections on it, by the artist David Adams.

A step-by-step demonstration of how to paint realistic green moss, by the artist David Adams.

If you're struggling to get a realistic sense of depth or distance in your landscape painting, these techniques will help.